If it's going to be - it's up to me!
Yes, poverty holds people back from seeing and seizing their potential. Is this what's holding you back?
One of the most insightful perspectives I ever heard on poverty was offered by the esteemed U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel on the Larry King Show. Rangel was born into poverty in Harlem and went from the periphery to the center of America's foremost power circles.
"Poverty," her said, "is no big deal. Almost all of the immigrants that came to this country were poor. What is a big deal is that a person has to have dreams and believe he can make it!" Then wisely he added, "And that's where education comes in."
In the full life I've lived, I've learned and now declare that no person, no institution, and no business ever has a money problem. It's never a money problem. It's always an idea problem. Money? There's so much of it! And money is always on the move - looking for new persons with bright ideas!
The truly crippling poverty that destroys persons is emotional poverty, and possibility thinking can attack that sort of poverty powerfully.
Submitted by Claus & Ingrid Dreyer
